Handmaid's Tale, Season 2
It's here! I binge watched the first season, wanting to see what all of the excitement was about, and now I know! Margaret Atwood is a woman ahead of her time, I think. When this book first came out, it was like reading science fiction. That couldn't ever REALLY happen, could it? Now, all these years later, it feels like it could. I could imagine the religious right doing something like that if the circumstances were right. Men and women could become sterile because of a virus or because of the drugs that so many doctors over prescribe. Too many antibiotics create a resistance to them. What if the same could happen because of birth control drugs? Would the ones in charge decide that we needed worker humans? Would they round up women able to conceive? It wouldn't be the first time that people were used as slaves in this country. Those in charge seem way too able to justify their actions. The show addresses women's rights in a clever way. Not all men are monsters, but there are enough of them to make us frown and cheer on the resistance. I'll try not to binge through this season of Handmaid's Tale, but it won't be easy.